Patrizia Albanese

Dr. Patrizia Albanese is TMU's Vice-Provost, Faculty Affairs. Previously, she served the Faculty of Arts as the Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies. She worked closely with the Faculty of Arts Dimensions Chair to help integrate EDI principles and work into student and faculty research, and also supported the development and administration of Arts’ Black Studies/Anti-Black Racism Research Grant and Indigenous Research Grant.

She is a professor in the Department of Sociology and was President-elect and then Chair of the Board of Directors of the Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences. As Chair of the Board, she was involved in establishing the Congress Advisory Committee on EDID and supporting the release of their Igniting Change report, recommendations and charter, which is helping to identify and address barriers to equitable, diverse and inclusive participation in Federation events. 

She is a co-editor of Reading Sociology: Decolonizing Canada (Oxford University Press, 2022), a collection of over 50 authors and area experts who, through scholarship, activism and practice are helping to reassess and re-narrate the colonial project that is Canada, and in doing so, provide a new sociology of Canada. This collection begins with a historical situating of Turtle Island as central to this narrative.